The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-13

IL Is not 50 HOW. IN Jnl5 country, Capable
Of holding, feeding, clothing, and sheltering
POO, 600, 900 people, and where we have only
60,000,000 inhabitants, wo have 2,CC0, Goo who
cannot get honest work, and, with their
families, an aggregation of &c, 100000 that are
OH the verge of starvation. Something
wrong most certainly. In some way, there
will be new apportionment Many of the
millionaire estates will crack to pieces on the
dissipations of grandchildren, and then dis
solve into the possession of the masses who
now have an insufiiciency.
What, you say, will become of tho expen-
sive and elaborate buildings now devoted to
debasing amusementsa They will become
schools, art galleries, museums, gymnasiums,
and churches The world is already getting
disgusted with many of these amusements,
and no wonder. What an importation Of
unclean theatrical stuff we have within the
last few years had brought to our shoresl
And professors Of religion patronizing such
things Having sold out to the devil, why
don't you deliver the goods and so over
to him publicly, body, mind and soul, and
withdraw your name from Christian churches
and say: "Know ali the world by these
presents that I am patron of uncleanness
and child of hell" Sworn to be the Lords,
you are perjurers.
But at In the tide has turned, and the des-
pisers of purity cverdid the matter.
foreign actress of base morals arrived, in
tending to make the tour of the states, but
the remaining decency of our cities
rose up and Cancelled the contracts,
and drove her back from our American
stage-a woman fit for neither continent. IN
the name of Almighty God I take these
denominations by tho throat. If you think
.NfPa o.
not know who the Lord is. God will not
wait for the day of judgment. All these
palaces of sin will become palaces of right
eousness. They will come into the possession
Of those strong for virtue and strong for
God. HE shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
China and Africa, the two richest portions
of the earth by reason of metals and rare
woods and inexhaustible productiveness, are
not yet divided up among the good because
they are rot ready to be divided. Wait
until all the doors that Livingstone opened
in Africa shall be entered, and Bishop Tay-
lor with his band of self supporting mission
aries have done their work, and the Asian
tees and Senegambians shall know Christ as
well as you know him, and there shall be ON
the banks of the Nile and the Niger higher
civilization than is now to be found on the
banks of the Hudson, then Christ will divide
up that continent among his friends Wait
until China, which is half as large as all Eu-
rope, shall have developed her capacities for
rice, and tea, and sugar among edibles; and
her amethyst, and sapphire, and topaz, and
opal, and jaspar, and porphyry among
precious stones; and her rosewood, and ebony,
and camphor, and varnish trees among prec-
ious woods; and turned up fret1s aer depths
half dozen Pennsylvania of coal and iron,
and twenty Nevadas of silver, and fifty Cali
fornias of gold, and her 500, 200, 900 of people
shall be evangelical; then the Lord will di-
vide it up among the good.
If my text be not a deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time is coming when
all the farms will he owned by Christian
farmers, and all the commerce controlled by
Christian merchants, and all the authority
held by Christian officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captains, and all
the universities under the instruction of
Christian professors, Christian kings, Chris
tian presidents, Christian governors, Chris
tian mayors, Christian common council.
| Yet, what securing out. what an uptlirn-
| ingl what demolitionl what resurrection
must precede this new apportionment!
1 do not underi ate the enemy Julius
| Caesar got his greatest victories by fully esti-
mating the vastness of his foes and prepared
his men for their greatest triumph by saying:
Tomorrow King Juba will be here with
$4,000 horses, 100,O 600 skirmishers and 300
elephants" I do not underrate the vast
| forces of sin and death, but do you know who
commands us? Jehovah-Jireh. And the re-
serve corps behind us are all the armies of
heaven and earth, with hurricane and
thunderbolt. The good work of the worlds
redemption is going on every minute. Never
so many splendid men and glorious women
on the side of right as to-day Never so
many good people as now. Diogenes has
been spoken of as wise man because he went
with a lantern at monday, saying he was
looking for an honest man. If he had turned
his lantern towards himself he might have
discovered crank.
Honest men by the ten thousandi Through
the international series of Sunday school les
sons the next generation all through Chris
tendon are going to be wiser than any
generation since the world stood. The king
dom is coming. God can do it. No house
wife with chamois cloth ever polished sill
yer teaspoon with more ease than Christ will
rub off from this world the tarnish and
brighten it up till it glows like heaven, and
| Cl6n Une GLORIOUS IOr text
is REINFORCED by score of other texts, when
it says of Christ: "He shall divide the spol
with the strong"
"But," you say, "that is pleasant to think
of for others, but before that time I shall
have passed up into another existence, and
shall get no advantage from that new appor
tionment." All, you have only driven me tc
the other more exciting and transporting
consideration and that is that Christ is going
to divide up heaven in the same way. There
are old estates in the celestial world that have
been in the possession of its inhabitants fol
thousands of years, and they shall remain aS
they are. There are old family mansions ir
heaven filled with whole generations of kin
6red, and they shall never be driven out
Many of the victors from earth have already
got their palaces, and they are pointed out tc
those newly arrived. Soon after our getting
there we will ask to be shown the apostolic
residences, and ask where does Paul live, anc
John, and shown the patriarchal residences
and shall say: "Where does Abraham live
or Jacob2" and shown the martyr residence!
and say: "Where does John Huss live, an(
Ridley9" We will want to see the boule
wards where the chariots of conquerors roll
I will want to see the gardens where tn
princes walked.
We will want to see Music Row, wher
Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart, and Charlie
Wesley, and Thomas Hastings and Bradbur,
have their homes, out of their windows, eve
and anon, rolling some sonnet of an earthl,
oratorio or hymn transported with the con,
poser We viii want to see Revival Terrace
where Whitefield, and Nettleton, and Pay
SON. and Rowland Hill, and Charles Finne,
and other giants of soul reaping are restin,
from their almost supernatural labors, thei
doors thronged with converts just arrived
coming to report themselves.
, But brilliant as the sunset, and like til
leaves for number, are the celestial homes ye
, to be awarded, when Christ to you, and mill
, ions of others, shall divide the spoil Wha
, do You want there! You shall have it. Al
, orchartll There it is; twelve manner of fruit
! and fruit every month. Do you want rive
scenery3 Take your choice on the banks c
, the river, in longer, wider, deeper Ioll tina
, Danube, or Amazon, or Mississippi, if mingle
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